Quotes About Experience

As a child who grew up in a grassy field, enjoying little formal education, I know virtually nothing about literary theories and have had to rely solely upon my own experiences and intuitive understanding of the world to write.

and the chewing and swallowing imbue me with an unadulterated sense of donkey delight.

Creí que lo habrías olvidado. -Imposible-dije-. De los cincuenta en adelante, uno no tiene memoria para las cosas recientes, pero las del pasado las recuerda cada vez mejor. -A mí también me pasa-dijo ella-. Hasta sueño con las cosas de entonces.

Men ska man vara finklädd för att smaka ett päron? En barfotaunge har också smak i munnen.

Maybe this was the meaning of life: to live in the darkness of Plato's cave and stare endlessly into the void, but to make pancakes and watch Woody Allen movies and look at the sun coming through the skylights. Those were the comforts of not having true knowledge of the world, but of being a part of it and being amazed by it.

A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of life.

Life doesn't teach us through ease & happiness, it teaches us through challenges & pain."

Success is not just the destination; it's the entire journey, every bit of it. It's not just the outcome rather it's the entire process."

And so their memories took on potential, which is of course how our greatest nostalgias are born.

It's in being read that a book becomes a book, and in each of a million different readings a book become one of a million different books . . .

Tous ces défauts humains nous donnent, dans la vie, Des moyens d'exercer notre philosophie

unbroken happiness is a bore: it should have ups and downs.

Being alive requires of us a relationsip with the mysterious, life-long experience of letting go.

Sometimes you just had to feel it. Sometimes you had to let the terror and the anger and the fear tear you apart. So you could feel what came next.

That man is so old, he's older than his birthday.

Do you want to be made well? I like this question for all that's behind it. The healers are asking: Are you willing to have a new experience? You know sickness, but you don't know wellness. You've learned how to manage what you do know. You know it like the back of your hand.

Life made its pattern around and beneath and through her.

In the only way that pain can be truly remembered, through a new pain.

while she wanted to look neither to her past nor her future, she lived exclusively in both. They had took different paths, but they had journeyed, so she realized, together.

The only value of wasted time is knowledge.

I thought I was old, back then. I thought I was grown up. I didn't know all my big mistakes were up ahead of me, still to come. Always

So it was sort of an odd time because I had been hired, but my paperwork hadn't gone through. So I worked as an intern during the government shutdown, as an intern, but I already had a job.

Well, I am not really a conventional mom at all. Like, I had my kids really young. I had Danny when I was 18 or 19 and then Liam when I was 23 and Molly, I had when I was a little older.

I never really did Christmas before. Christmas Day? I mean - what's that? What's it all about? I was always flying on Christmas Day.